Fiddynut
Active member
Greetings friends.
I want to move toward a more natural approach to my grows. I've been getting what I think are calcium and magnesium deficiencies in all of my grows so far. After a couple years of growing I want to improve my results and quality. If I add liquid cal/mag it seems to make things even worse. I'm using RO water because my tap water is very poor for growing.
After reeding some of what slownickel has written and others I think more available calcium is a must for my grows to improve. I keep thinking about a post by budrunner on high brix growing where he talks about using a mix of 6-5-3 CaCo3-soft Rock phosphate-gypsum to mineralize and charge the soil. I'm hoping that I can use this formula or something similar to get my bag soil working better. His recommendation is to use 1 cup of the 6-5-3 mix for 2 cubic feet of soil.
Does anyone have any experience with this type of mineralization that can share thoughts with me?
I'm having problems finding the CaCo3 but I picked up a box of crushed oyster shell that I was hoping to substitute for the CaCo3. Any input on this would be appreciated.
Last question is how will adding this mix to my bag soil affect the soil pH and do I have to correct for this? I've been using happy frog soil but find its gotten really hydrophobic and have a couple bags of roots original and 707 that I want to mineralize.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts or suggestions...Fiddy.
I want to move toward a more natural approach to my grows. I've been getting what I think are calcium and magnesium deficiencies in all of my grows so far. After a couple years of growing I want to improve my results and quality. If I add liquid cal/mag it seems to make things even worse. I'm using RO water because my tap water is very poor for growing.
After reeding some of what slownickel has written and others I think more available calcium is a must for my grows to improve. I keep thinking about a post by budrunner on high brix growing where he talks about using a mix of 6-5-3 CaCo3-soft Rock phosphate-gypsum to mineralize and charge the soil. I'm hoping that I can use this formula or something similar to get my bag soil working better. His recommendation is to use 1 cup of the 6-5-3 mix for 2 cubic feet of soil.
Does anyone have any experience with this type of mineralization that can share thoughts with me?
I'm having problems finding the CaCo3 but I picked up a box of crushed oyster shell that I was hoping to substitute for the CaCo3. Any input on this would be appreciated.
Last question is how will adding this mix to my bag soil affect the soil pH and do I have to correct for this? I've been using happy frog soil but find its gotten really hydrophobic and have a couple bags of roots original and 707 that I want to mineralize.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts or suggestions...Fiddy.